Quotes About Intelligence

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. Always deal from a position of power.

Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever

In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.

I suppose that's the way we humans are, thinking too much and listening too little. Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own. Listening, standing witness, creates an openness to the world in which the boundaries between us can dissolve in a raindrop. The drop swells on the tip of a cedar and I catch it on my tongue like a blessing.

Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own. Listening, standing witness, creates an openness to the world in which the boundaries between us can dissolve in a raindrop.

suppose that's the way we humans are, thinking too much and listening too little. Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own.

I suppose that's the way we humans are, thinking too much and listening too little. Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own. Listening, standing witness, creates an openness to the world in which the boundaries between us can dissolve in a raindrop.

We're adults. I might be a little more of an adult if you're counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.

You should get a better boyfriend. One with an IQ higher than a turnip.

It's not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one.

I have a weakness for tough guys who read.

I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way.

I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter

You have special abilities," she goes on. "I don't mean you are a witch or a fox spirit. And you've never seemed drawn to the special gift of healing or magic. Rather, you are like A-ma Mata, who gave birth to the Akha people, who pushed against her restraints, who said, 'No, I will not accept my bad fate,' and who endured against all odds with her intelligence, compassion, and perseverance. All that comes from this grove. And the mother tree." A-ma

What husband wants a wife who thinks she's smarter than he is?

You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer.

He didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.

A better reason why we, and other intelligent species, are born with such poorly developed brains is so that we can learn.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.

Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.

Not only was Ivan an idiot, but he generated a telepathic damping field that turned people nearby into idiots, too. He would point this out to Barrayaran Intelligence, who would make of his cousin the newest weapon in their arsenal—if

I'd have been a fool not to have thought of it, and a greater fool not to have thought better of it.